British rights society PRS for Music has launched legal proceedings on March 4 against Valve Corporation, the parent company of Steam, for the unlicensed use of copyrighted repertoire from PRS by the gaming platform. "Since its launch in 2003, Valve has never obtained a license for its use of the rights managed by PRS on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers," said PRS for Music in a statement, to explain the reason behind the proceedings. Steam, which brands itself as the ulti...

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the Thaler v. Perlmutter case, which would have ruled whether an AI-generated work of art could be granted copyright protection under US law. The petition for certiorari was filed by Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist from Missouri, who was appealing a decision from a Federal Court of Appeals, which found that the US Copyright Office (USCO) appropriately rejected Thaler’s attempt to register an AI-generated visual art piece in 2018. Thaler built an AI ...

The Dutch Association of Journalists (NVJ), the Authors’ Union (Auteursbond), and writers’ rights organisation Lira Foundation have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, enjoining the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to using copyrighted material written by Dutch authors, reporters, and translators to train its Llama artificial intelligence models. NVJ General Secretary Thomas Bruning said the letter was a first step. If Meta fails to address the issue exposed in the letter, the organ...